Registered Nurse-PACT

Department of Veterans Affairs • Bedford, MA

41d • Onsite

About The Position

This Registered Nurse position is located in Nursing, Ambulatory Care located at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial, Bedford, MA campus. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to primary patients. The PACT RN provided direct Veteran care and care coordination as it pertains to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department.

Requirements

• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

Responsibilities

• Directs the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic, primary care through collaborative strategies with others.
• Participates in precepting new employees (RN, LPN, NAs) and validates unit-specific competency completions
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served.
• Contributes professional outpatient nursing perspectdive in discussions with Interdisciplinary Team.
• Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care.
• Shares educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees